Sam Pepper, a popular British YouTuber, recently posted a “prank” video that consisted of him grabbing girls’ backsides in public and then laughing when they reacted negatively. This is not the first time Pepper has done something of this caliber.

YouTube suspended his channel – which means that the public can still view the channel, but the poster can no longer post new material – due to this incident on September 22nd.

What one can find on Pepper’s channel still, though, are a large collection of prank videos that involve him sexually harassing women, including one that is all about getting random girls to kiss him. In the “prank” videos, it’s quite obvious that most of the women are extremely uncomfortable, but Pepper pressures them into doing what he asks.

In addition to the suspension, YouTube took the video of him grabbing women down because it violated the site’s rules against inappropriate videos. Pepper released a video the week after this decision so he could “shed light” on the butt-grabbing, sexual-assault video, which he claims was simply a social experiment that was supposed to be a representation of the fact that when a woman is sexually assaulted, everyone freaks out, but if a man is sexually assaulted no one bats an eye.

Though some of his fans still support him, many unsubscribed and no longer follow or support him. In fact, his followers dropped from 2 million to 1.3 million overnight after the “backside grabbing” video was posted.

It is very clear that his video explaining what his “social experiment” was is nothing more than an attempt to allow him to sexually assault women in public, on camera and call it “an experiment.” While he says that he received consent from the women, the women in the video, when asked if they gave their consent, answered with a firm and simple “no.”

Even if it was some social experiment, Pepper went about it the wrong way. The improv group OckTV and actress Yoying staged a social experiment relating to domestic abuse, but they did it in a more organized and thoughtful way. The video consists of four actors playing male/female couples that engage in public domestic abuse.

The first scenario involves a man pulling a woman around by the arm, yelling at her, and being extremely abusive in public. In this case, a large number of onlookers went up and tried to stop the man and get him away from the woman.

In the second scenario, the roles are reversed with the woman hitting the man and yelling at him. However, onlookers do nothing. This was a proper experiment, which showed the public’s response to specific incidents of domestic violence.

Pepper’s video is just him grabbing women’s butts, with no explanation whatsoever. The girls in Pepper’s videos are being touched, kissed, and, ironically – based on his intent – sexually assaulted.

Fans of Pepper are angered that YouTube and even the Internet community let his sexual harassment of women go on for so long, while others are angry that he was even criticized for his actions. Fellow YouTubers Hanna Heart, Tyler Oakley, and others signed a letter a viewer wrote to Pepper, asking him to stop these kinds of videos.

Though there has been no response from Pepper to this point, viewers hope that, if his suspension is lifted, that he will stop “prank” videos that concentrate on sexually harassing women.